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- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- To: "'XML Developers' list'" <xml-dev@XML.ORG>
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:40:13 -0500
At 11:00 PM +0000 3/8/00, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
>I chose leading "." precisely _because_ it violates 1.0. That means
>if my proposed change is introduced in 1.1, it does not change the
>interpretation of any existing well-formed XML.
One of the strengths of XML is that to date it's been both forwards
and backwards compatible. I'd really hate to break that without a
very good reason, and I don't think this qualifies.
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